Improvement in overalls



L. M. MARR.

OVERALLS.

Patented July 4,1876;

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UNITED STATES PATENT @FFIGE.

LLEWELLYN M. MARE, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT lN OVERALLS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 179,458., dated July 4, 1876 application filed April 24, 1876.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LLEWELLYN M. MARE, of Boston, of the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Garments or Overalls and do hereby declare the same to be fully described in the following specification and represented in the accompanying drawings, of which- Figurelisafrontview,and Fig.2 a rearele vation, of overalls provided with my in ven-c tion. Fig. 3 is a section taken through the waistbands and their draft-straps.

In carrying out my invention I make the overalls with a triangular opening, a, arranged in the middle of the back, as shown, and also with two tubular waistbands, b b, leading from such opening, as shown, and I connect to the ends of the waistbands, or sides of the openings a, two straps, c 0. At a suitable distance from the opening a I form each waistband with a slit, d, in, or opening through, its side, and I extend the two straps in opposite directions to, and through, the said slits, one of the straps going into one waistband, and the other into the other, as shown. I run the straps along within the two waistbands suitable distances, and thence out of them through other slots 6 6, made in their fronts, and thence into and through buckles ff, fastened to the waistbands. The straps may be long enough to tie together on the front of the overalls when the latter may be on the body and legs of a person. ()ne of the back slots cl goes through the outer side of its waistband, while the other is made through the inner side of the other waistband, the whole being so that on taking hold of and drawing the two straps in opposite directions, the waistbands at the back of the overalls may be pulled toward each other, and caused to overlap one another,

if necessary, so as to close the back opening a, by the overlapping of the parts adjacent thereto.

From the above it will be seen that, in order to contract and gather the overalls at the waist while in wear, the wearer has only to take hold of both the straps and pull on them simultaneously, they being drawn through the buckles and duly caught by their tongues; For better security he can tie the straps together on the front of the overalls, and across the ends of the waistbands, and thus save the necessity ofa button and button-hole'at such ends.

I do not claim overalls having a tubular waistband closed in rear, and open only at the sides, and having one or two straps arranged therein, allbeing as represented in the United States Patent No. 167,318.

My improved overalls have two tubular and slotted waistbands; and also an intervening opening at the back, across which the straps are run, all of which is productive of advantagesviz. in dispensing with the gathering or puckering of the waistbands, and also in enabling the straps to be employed for hanging the garment on a hook introduced through the back opening; therefore I claim- As an improved manufacture, overalls having the back opening a, the tubular and slotted waistbands b b, and the two straps c c, (or straps c c and buckles ff,) all arranged and applied as set forth.

LLEWELLYN M. MARE.

Witnesses:

R. H. EDDY, J. R. Snow. 

